﻿﻿PHOTO CAPTION: Jared Jackson takes a leap of faith from the top of a 25 foot high telephone pole at the High Ropes Course at the Season of Our Joy Feast site in Missouri. (Photos by Haylea Parks)

Sometimes it take a leap of faith to break out of our comfort zones in overcoming and fellowshipping. Life is hard enough for most of us that we would rather have life's challenges and hardships come to us rather than embracing them in a voluntary leap. The High Ropes course challenges teenagers at Season of Our Joy Sukkot site in Missoui to face and feel the fear and overcome it (see above photos), while the Focus Point series offers spiritual instruction and life lessons by mature believers, and the Midnight Midrash (a chaperoned discussion group run by the teens themselves) offers them real-time in interfacing respectfully and intelligently with others.

2009 Our Father's FestivalTM Recap and Attendance

222 registered attendees from 6 states attended Our Father's FestivalTM in 2009: 162 adults, 50 kids ages 5-17 years old, and 10 under the age of 5. Overall, this represented an increase in attendance of 27% from our inaugural in 2008.

Thank You!!

The Festival Planning Team wishes to extend their gratitude and appreciation to all who made Our Father’s Festival possible in our 2nd year. Based on an evaluation scale of 1 to 4 with 4 being the highest---the Festival received an overall evaluation of 3.56 from the evaluations forms submitted. Thank you for all who took the time to let us know how we did!

WHERE: Prescott, Arizona. Camp Yavapines is a quality and quiet 169 acre facility with many amenities and adjoins the huge Prescott National Forest.

WEATHER: Fall temperatures are typically in the 70s and nightly lows into the high 40s. One can expect blue skies with no or very little precipitation.

Explorethe West while enjoying the Festival in this Top Ten Western Town for its scenic beauty, historic downtown, the Courthouse Plaza which was named one of the first Top Ten Public Places in 2008 in the nation (along with the likes of New York's Central Park and Santa Monica Beach), and the surrounding forests.

Thumb Butte Mountain (above right) is named “Ne Mithe Giyake” (lion lying down) by the native American Yavapai Tribe because of its resemblance to a lion. The mountain lies just to the south of Camp Yavapines and offers outstanding views of the Prescott area via a hiking trail from the camp